Originally Posted by
begeiste
Do you have a trouble for showing the upload form as the same as screen shot in the tutorial(preupload.php) that I mentioned? If you don't, can you let me know how to understand the codes <<<__HTML_END"and"__HTML_END;". I don't understand them. Do I need to create a header.php and footer.php individually to be able to display preupload.php correctly?
Thanks.
sorry for not replying back sooner, we've all been busy.
anyway, those tags "<<<__HTML_END"and"__HTML_END;" are another way of doing " or a '.
still not clear? 
here's an example of the code changed to way i'm going on about:
PHP Code:
<?php
include 'config.inc.php';
// initialization
$photo_upload_fields = '';
$counter = 1;
// If we want more fields, then use, preupload.php?number_of_fields=20
$number_of_fields = (isset($_GET['number_of_fields'])) ?
(int)($_GET['number_of_fields']) : 5;
// Firstly Lets build the Category List
$result = mysql_query('SELECT category_id,category_name FROM gallery_category');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$photo_category_list .= '<option value="$row[0]">$row[1]</option>\n';
}
mysql_free_result( $result );
// Lets build the Image Uploading fields
while($counter <= $number_of_fields) {
$photo_upload_fields .= '
<tr><td>
Photo {$counter}:
<input name="photo_filename[]"
type="file" />
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
Caption:
<textarea name="photo_caption[]" cols="30"
rows="1"></textarea>
</td></tr>';
$counter++;
}
// Final Output
echo '<html>
<head>
<title>Lets upload Photos</title>
</head>
<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="upload.php" method="post"
name="upload_form">
<table width="90%" border="0"
align="center" style="width: 90%;">
<tr><td>
Select Category
<select name="category">
$photo_category_list
</select>
</td></tr>
<!—Insert the image fields here -->
$photo_upload_fields
<tr><td>
<input type="submit" name="submit"
value="Add Photos" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>';
?>
getting it now? 
here's a small snippet of the code:
the orig:
PHP Code:
$photo_category_list .= <<<__HTML_END
<option value="$row[0]">$row[1]</option>\n
__HTML_END;
the changed example:
PHP Code:
$photo_category_list .= '<option value="$row[0]">$row[1]</option>\n';
i personally prefer the changed example above, to me it makes it easy to understand and read. others will like the other method of using the html tags "<<<__HTML_END", etc...
the problem with the method that i like using is you may have to do something like the code below to get the code to work, only if there's an error message appearing in the web browser:
PHP Code:
<option value="'.$row[0].'">'.$row[1].'</option>
as for the other question:
Do I need to create a header.php and footer.php individually to be able to display preupload.php correctly?
you will need to create a header.php and footer.php to display the top and bottom of each page.
the preupload.php goes inbetween the header and footer then placed into the index page through the web browser.
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